53 Minutes of the Executive Committee, 25 July 1890, WFLMB, for example, state that Mrs.
Pankhurst moves, Mrs. Burrows seconds ‘that no formal receipts be given except by or
through the Treasurer’ while those for 15 September 1890, record that Mrs. Scatcherd
moves and Mrs. Pankhurst seconds ‘that the Hon Secs be empowered to engage such
secretarial help as they think necessary’. The Minutes for 24 November 1890 note that
‘Mrs. Pankhurst suggested thatThe Gentlewoman, thePall Mall GazetteandThe Star
should be asked if they would give every week a column or ½ a column to the objects of
the League.’ The meetings that Emmeline chaired include those held on 24 November
1890, 5 January and 14 July 1891 and 5 August 1892.
54 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 97.
55 Ursula Bright to EP, 28 November 1893, ESPA.
56 Interview with Mrs. Pankhurst, 1891, pp. 241–2 for all the following quotes.
57 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 34.
58 Interview with Mrs. Pankhurst, 1891, p. 242.
59 Minutes of the Executive Committee, 2 October and 30 November 1891, WFLMB; A.
Bott (ed.), Our mothers(London, Victor Gollancz, 1932), p. 165.
60 Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, p. 14.
61 A. Pankhurst Walsh, My mother, p. 4.
62 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 101.
63 Ibid., p. 101.
64 Ibid., p. 108; A. Pankhurst Walsh, My mother, pp. 8–9.
65 West, Mrs. Pankhurst, p. 483.
66 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 98; C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, pp. 28–9.
67 A. Pankhurst Walsh, My mother, pp. 9–10.
68 Ibid., p. 3.
69 Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, pp. 14–15.
70 Holton, Suffrage days, p. 85; The Times, 27 April 1892.
71 Minutes of the Executive Committee, 2 May 1892, WFLMB.
72 The Times, 27 April 1892.
73 Ibid.; Rubinstein, Before the suffragettes, p. 144.
74 Ursula Bright to EP, 28 November 1893, ESPA.
75 Crawford, The women’s suffrage movement, p. 501.
76 Minutes of the Executive Committee, 2 May 1892, WFLMB.
77 EP to J. H. Nodal Esq., 28 April 1892, Author’s Collection.
78 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 112.
79 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 30.
80 See Women’s Penny Paper, 15 November 1890.
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1 C. Pankhurst, Unshackled, p. 31.
2 See Dyhouse, Girls growing up, pp. 55–78; Purvis, A history of women’s education, pp.
75–84.
3 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 113; Coleman, Adela Pankhurst, p. 17.
4 E. S. Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, p. 30.
5 E. S. Pankhurst, TSM, p. 114.
6 Minutes of the Executive Committee, 17 November 1893, WFLMB.
7 Ursula Bright to EP, 27 and 28 November 1893, ESPA.
8 Report of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women’s
Suffrage (hereafter MNSWS), presented at the Annual General Meeting, 29 November
1893 (Manchester, Aston & Redfern), Manchester Central Library, UK, M50/1/4/24.
9 Crawford, The women’s suffrage movement, p. 648.NOTES